PhilosophersHypatie d'Alexandrie
Hypatie d'Alexandrie
Mathematician and philosopher, head of the school of Alexandria.
NeoplatonismIVe-Ve s. apr. J.-C. EgyptTeacher of philosophyPlatonist, in the tradition of PlotinusNo text by her has survivedKnown only through witnesses
IVe s. apr.
Commentaries on Diophantus, on Apollonius' Conics and an astronomical canon
Lost books, attributed to Hypatia by the Suda, a Byzantine dictionary (10th c.), which we could not collect. Some scholars think passages of surviving commentaries may come from her teaching, but nothing is certain.
395-413
Letters of Synesius "to the Philosopher" (seven letters, six in our corpus) essential
These are letters to her, not by her. Their only interest here is to show a woman respected by her former pupil. We do not have her replies.